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view of your Majes v. The obstacle which pre.. v. 'tired it has noW disappeared of itself. Vour Ma jesty owes it to your Empire to take advantage of a 4 irenmstance which so naturally leads to the Union. There can be none more favourable for the execu tion of your projects. " Your Majesty has established, at Antwerp a powerful arsenal. Thu. astonished Scheldt swells with pride to behold twenty -vessels of the first rare lie - iring your Majesty's flag, and . lotedingits shores that: were formerly scarcely visited •by.some Irading ‘essels. But the great designs of your Majesty in ihit respea, cannot be fully accomplished except by the union of .Holland. It is necessary to complete so astonishing a ,creation. •Under your M jesty's, • .eneigetic 'GovernMent, the ensuing yeai w'll not terminate before, by calling into a&ion the maritime tesourees of Ho:land, a fleet of 40 sail of the line, and a great number of troops, shall be assembled in •,the Scheldt, and Texel, to dipute with the British Government the sovereignty of the sea, and repel' its' unjust claims: • " So that it is not the interest of France alone that calls • for this union ; it is that of continental Europe, who applies to France to 'repair the losses of her marine, and combat, on her oven element, the enemy of the , prosperity of Europe ; whose in dustry it has not been able to stifle, but whose corn rtninicatioos it obstilids• by its insolent claims, and the vast number °fits ships of war. Finall), the moon of Holland augments the Empire, in render ing more close the frontiers 'she defends, and in adding to the secoritv Of its arsenals and docks. It enriches it by an industrious, thrifty and laborious people, who will add to the stork of public wealth, in increasing their private famines. There are no people more estimable, or better adapted , to derive benefit from the advantages WhiCh the liberal policy of your Government attbrdS to induStry. France could not have made - a more valuable acquisition. " The annexation of Holland to France is the necessary consequence of the union of Belgium. It completes your 14lajesty's Empire, as well- as the execution. of your system of war, politics, and trade. It is the first, but a necessary step towards the restoration of your navy ; in fad, it is the hea viest blow which your Majesty 'could inflict upon England. " As to the young P-ince, who is so dear to your Majesty', he has already felt the effeas of your good will. You have bestowed on him the Grand Duchy of Berg. He has therefore no occasion for - any new establi.brnent, " I have the honour to propose to your Majesty the projet of the following Decree. I am, &c. " CHANPAGNY, Duke of CADORE." ))TRACT 1110 M THE REGISTERS OF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. Palace of Ramhouillet, July 9th, 1810. We, Navoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Protector of Confederalion of the Rhine, Mediator of. the Swiss Confederation, &c. &c. have decreed, and hereby decree., "as follow TITLE I. Art. 1. Holland is united to Fance. Y. The City of Atn4erdam shall be the third City 'of the Empire. 3. Holland shall ha'e six Senators, six Deputies to the Council of State, twenty-five Deputies to the Ligislalive Body and two Judges in the Court of Ca.,sat ion. 4. The officers by sea and land, of whatever rank, shall be confirmed in their employments. Com missions shall he delivered to them signed with our hand. The Royal Guard 'shall be united to.our imperial Guard. TITLE 11.-Of the Administration for 1810. 5. The Duke of Placentia, Arch Treasurer of the Empire, shall repair to' Amsterdam in the capacity of our Lieoenant-General. He shall preside in the Council of Ministers, and attend to the dispatch of business. His fundions 01411 cease the Ist of Janu ary, 181 1, did period when the French administra tion shall commence. 6. All the public funEtionaries, of whatever rank, are . confirmed in their employments. TITLE 111.-Of the Finances. 7. The present contributions shall continue to be levied until the Ist of January, 1811, at which period the country shall be eased of thaeburden, and the imposts put on the same footing as for the rest of the Empire. 8. The budget of receipts and disbursements shall be submitted to our approbation before the tat of August nex:. Only one-third of the present amount of the in tc;-est upon the public debt shall be carried to the account of expenditure for 1810. _ The interest of lhe'debt for 1808 and 1809, not yet paid, shall be reduced to one-third, and charged on the budget of 18 W. • 9. The Custom-houses on the frontier, other than those of Fiance, shall be organized under the super intendance of our 'Duet . ..tut-General of Custom houses. The Dotch Custom-houses shall be incor porated therewith. The line of custom-houses, now on the French f rm iti cr , shill kept up until the Ist ofJanuary, 1811, when it shall be removed, and the comamnication of Holland with the Empire become free. 10. The Colonial produce, actually in Holland, shall remain to the hands of the owners, upon pay ing a duty of 50 per cent. ad valorem. A declaration d)t , t lieamount shall be made before the tst.of Sep. tember at firthest. The said merchandize, upon payment of the dwies, may I* • imported into France,• and cir culated through the whole extent of the Empire. TITLE IV. 1. There shall be at Amsterdam a special Atl inini6tiation, presided °veil)) , one of our Counsel lOrs of State, which, shall have the superintendanee of, and the necessary funds ,to provide for the re pairs of the dykes, polders, and uther public works. TITLE V. 12. in the course of the present month there shall be nominated, by the Legislative Body'Of Holland, a Commission of 15 members, to proceed to Pat in order to constitute a Council, hose business shall be to regulate definitivelyall , that relatts to the public and local debts, and to conciliate the prin ciples of the union with the localities and interests of the country., 13. Our Ministers are charged with the exettra lions' cif the present decree. (Sunecl) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, (Siguei) • The• Minister Sec. of Stste, H. B. Duke of BASSANO. FROM THE MONITEUR.. • The Advices from Spain and the army of Portu gal are very unimpollant. The army of Catalonia is marching towards Tarra gona, to besiege that fortiess. A division of the army of Arragun is directing its march upon Torlet. The ordnance and stores for the siege are embarked on the Ebro. In the South, the first corps, commanded by the Duke of &hullo, is in front of Cadiz. The sth corps, commanded by the Duke of Treviso, is on , the fiont►er of Portugal, to the right ; and the 4th, corps, corninancled by General Seba•tiani, is to wards Malaga and Murcia. Gun-boats are con= strutting ; batteries are ere ling on the coast. Three crews of French sailors and a segitnent of work men have at length arrived in' Andalusia, consisting, in all, of between 3000 and 4000, expert in naval operations. • In Spain, there are in some provinces disturb ances and banditti, but no where is there any long er a Spanish army in existence. When General Monre was in Spain, the Spaniards had an army of more than 200,000 men on the Ebro. When, at a subsequent period, General. Wellingyan marched to Talavera, they still had three armies : one in Cdta 7 lonia, one under the command of Cuesta, and ano teer one - called the Army of the Centre; making together about 80,000 men. At present they have only three corps, scarcely making 24,000 recruits, who are unworthy the name of soldiers. The last dispatches from the army of Portugal contain the following details":--- " The Duke of Abrantes wishing to make himself master master of the country situated between the Te=a, the Esla and Duero, and by this movement to sup port the right of the 6th corps,' gave orders to Ge neral St. Croix to pass the Terth, and to attack the enemy. " On the 6th this General attacked the enemy's line of posts at' Monbucq and Bretocinnos. These two posts, which were defended by 500 infantry and 200 cavalry were carried by assault: The whole chain of posts was driven in. Our troops killed 200 of the enemy, and made 60 prisoners. The chief of squadron Fische, and Captains Termeflier and Talon, distinguished- themselves. • ‘.‘ During the night the enemy united at Alca niza, Amu 3000 infantry and 600 cavalry, under the orders of General Echaverria. another column' was to descend from the mountains to join this corps. " General St. Croix posted his first regiment so as to stop the progress of this column, and marched upon Alcaniza with the other two. On arriving in front of that town, he found the streets barricadoed, loop-holes formed in several of the houses, and the enemy drawn up pn the heights, with the bed ,of a torrent covering his front. " The General commenced the aelion with the firing of the sharp-shooters, and at the same time endeavoured to turn the enemy's flanks. The squa drons surmounted every obstacle ; some of the dra, goons dismounted and pushed forward, leaVing their horses behind, whilst others, dragging their horses after them by the bridle, climbed the rocks, and passed the precipices under the enemy's fire. The General in person advanced at the head of a,squa dron, and broke through the enemy's line at the first charge. Nothing could .stand. before them.—' The enemy were totally rcuted • and. pursued under the walls of Miranda de Duero. Upwards or 700 fell in the field of battle. A Colonel, 15 officers, and 400 rank and file were made prisoners. There were found at Alcaneza, more than 100,000 car tridges, 600 English muskets, 400 new saddles, anti - 2000 suits of regimentals. We bad 5 men killed and a few wounded: - " General St. Croix was slightly wounded. He particularly praises the conduit of Messrs. the Of ficers Hameleville, Leleu, Turing,, and Labourdon naye, and also that of Captain Ecqnevilley, his Aide-de-camp." • The General commanding the 2d corps of that army gives the following, under date of the 21st of May, at Merida : '• 'The post of' Miagudora was attacked on the 15th by a body of marauders, who were repulsed with the loss of 30 men -and a number of horses.. OtS the iUth, our light cavalry cut in pieces an advanced post of the enemy near Badajos. " A corps of the enemy under. the command of Don Carlos Espitgna, attacked Truxillo in the night of .the 17th; The Adjutant Commandant Desrocho repulsed the enemy at all points, with the loss of a number in killed and prisoners. Our troops, though inconsiderable in number, pursued them closely as fir as the river Cucubre. The Adjutant Gem- tnandant Desroches and 4 dragoons were wounded. " On . the 20th a body of 3000 men, that had marched from. Xeres, attacked the castle of Feria. They took flight at the firing of only a single gun. " On the 22d, our light troops fell in with a re connoitring party of the enemy near Alaceres, and made prisoners 2 officers and 14 soldiers." The Dispatches from the s th corps, dated Seville, the 24th and 29th of May, give the following par ticulars : ". A corps of the enemy attacked the French ad vanced posts near Guinena, on the high road to Es iremadura. The action was very warm, and the enemy left on the field. a number of killed and wounded. On the 26th, a column, commanded by Gen. Girard, came up, at Aracena, with the division of Ballasteros, 6000 strong, and occupying a very advan tageous position in the rear of the town. The 08th regiment of light infantry carried this position at the point of the bayonet, whilst the 34th of the line mantruvred in order to turn the enemy, who were completely routed. They lost a numher in and had more than 300 wounded; including several officers, and the Colonel of the regiment of Leon. We hnd five killed and 40 wounded.' Among the latter is Colonel Praefke r)( the2Bili. The Duke of Treviso particularly praises the good conduct of this officer, and that orthe chiefs of battalion Lecamns and Dedonal. " A detachment of the Duke of Ahretnberg's chas- sears hate seized, near Palos, an armed vesseT, %%nch } pad closely approached the coast, and landed a part of her crew to carry off:Some sheep. The chasseurs attackei this party of seamen, drove them back to their vessel, and carried her by bnardifig. Th e ves selwas armed with a I 6-pounder and 2 brass car ronaqes. Having no means of securing her, the chasseurs set fire to hcr." SIEGE OF CIUDAD RODRIGO. On the night between the 15th and Mb, the trenches were opened before Ciudad Rodrigo. The enemy being deceived by a double ktlse attack; one made on the left,, the other on the right of the Agueda, we suffered less losS by their fire than we had reason to expect. Before day-break the parallel was open to the extent of 1000 yards ; it was tour feet wide and • three deep. Its right was little more than six hundred yArds from the fortress, and its left not above 200. When the ,day broke, the enemy found out ther mistake, and kept up a heavy fire until ten o'clock. We had ten tnen killed, and seventy wounded. The day of the iGth, and the folldwing night, were employed in widening the parallel and its com munications. The work was considerably impeded by the water. - • From the 17th to the 18th, the parallel was wid ened to ten feet throughout its whole extent. The parapets were commenced and completed at several points. Channels were dug to carry off the water. The communication by the right was triade perfealy drys but that on the left is very moist, as•well as at the right end of the parallel. • On the 17th, the enemy made so e sorties, and endeavoured to turn our left, which com pelled us to extend the parallel ; ;a the course of the night it was lengthened 120 yards From the 'lBth to the i 9th, we were employed in Widening and deepning the continuation of ?he left of the parallel, :for the ptrpose of getting under shelter from the fire of the suburbs. The whole of the communications and all that part of the parallel contained between them, wee widened ten feet at the bottom, and the parapets finished. That part of the parallel between the Bishop's house and the extremity ofthe right, was abandoned on aCCOUIIt or the.water it will he . cotppleted to morrow night. Thus the first parallel may be con sidered as finished. The enemy threw, a great many shells, but with out doing us any injury.. Our artillery al rives slowly the roads are very bad. From . the. 19th to the pot!). The parallel was Completed throughout its whole length. A part of it to the right, of about 60 yards long, has not the parapets yet finished. The communication on the . left is entirely completed. The earth fell in some places on the . right ; but it was thrown up again. The batteries are constructing. All the 16- pounders and 1.2-inch mortars are arrived in the park. We had '24 men killed and wounded among whom is an officer of the 50th !regiment. , From the 20th to the 2151. In the course of the night we began the, second parallel by two ap proaches; one of the-length of 2e4 yards, the other of 160. These dpprohches bring us 140 paces nearer ;he fort. The enemy kept up a very brisk fire, particularly with musketry. We had 15 men, and 1 officer, wounded. The 24-pounders arrived on the 21st, so that all the artillery is now in the park. The soil upon which many of the batteries are construaing, pre sents difficulties which will retard the work a little . There will not, however, be much time lost, be, cause, as all the guns cannot be brought to the bat teries the same night, they will beaccording as the platforms are finished. A dispatch from Marshal the Prince of Essling, 1 , dated Salamanca, June 9, contains a report 'from Ge neral Laubardiere, in which he gives an account that a corps of the enemy.appeared on the 6th before Astorga, , and threatened - a coup de nzain-against the town. They endeavoured to prevent the entrance of some detachments of our troops. A brisk dis charge of musketry took place ; Gen. Laubardiere ordered 300 infantry and some cavalry to make a sortie; the cannon on the ramparts proteaed them, a nd th e enemy was repulsed and overwhelmed on all sides. He fled, leaving behind hiln.4o killed and . Go wounded. American vessels have entered the ports of the North, and the Baltic, with pretended certificates of origin, delivered by the French Consuls., •We have. authority to declare officially, that such certificates are forged, and that the hearers thereof are to be considered as forgers. These documents are evi dently fabricated in England; the Consuls of his Majesty in America, having delivered none for a long time. TO HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WAGRAM AND 'NEUFCHATEL, VICE-CONSTABLE, ,MAJOIt- GENERAL. " arrived • at * Caridad on the evening of the 24th; yesterday, the 25th; at Jour in the morn-' ing, I ordered the tire to be cornmenced against the fort with 46 guns; it appears that the.garriSon did not exret it so soon. They were very much di-- concerted for the first few hours, aid only re- - turned it feebly. Soon after.they began to ; fire with a great deal of alivity. The tortilkations were damaged, the parapet and embrasures were much injured, and several guns dismounted. The fire broke out several times, and in various Nits of file town ; one of the magazines exploded with a 'tre mendous noise. That part of the wall to the east, which it adjoined was damaged. The , same acci dent betel us. Two small depots also toil: fire, and occacioned us the loss of some men. Our loss in the hole ainounts to two officers and. ten . men killed, one officer and 41 wounded. It might have been more, considering how near the batteries were, and the pebbty nattire of the soil. That of the enemy, .confined within stone ramparts and en cumbered with inkahnarits, must have been much greater. Our sharp : shooters, posted almost above the glacis, embarrassed triuch the canuoniers of the garrison, of whom they killed a great mtiny. The enemy remained in possesston of a Rat of .the con vent of the Holy Cross, from which they etifiladed our approaches on the -left.- . They . were driven frbtu it in 'the night, and the whole content is oc cupied b : IFl‘ Our approJches are proceeding. `‘ I ,tl:c,c; driven the English beyond the A:*ava. My cavalry are on the right bank of that streatule!,. with some artillery and a few battalions of light in fantry. The English army still occupies the same positions at Espeja, Villa Formosa, and Gallegos: A deserter came in yesterday, who states that Lord Wellington was its this last village. " Accept, Sir,.a fresh 3FSUraIICC of the respeEtful devotedness, with which I have the honotir to be, - yourffighnessis most humble andobedient servant, ' " The Nlarslial Prince of- ESSLI NG,• Commander in Chief at the Army of Portugal, • A , AASSE.N.A." * Ciudad, we suppose. MA! LS. AItRtvED- Gottenburgh, r Lisbon, i Dublin, t ‘Vaterford. DUE—.I Waterford. I'ItICE OF STOCKS THIS DA Y AT TWISLVE„'CLOCK. Consols 6$ 67 . zi &s. TLi E S U IN. soLF.NI QUIS DICiRE FAI SUM AVI)EAT ? L 0 IV 1) 0 Lv, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1810. At a late hour last night a Moniteur 01 the 40th inst. arrived, which contains the long-expeted telligence of the annexation of Holland to' France. The change which Ho;land will undergo ter this new aet of BUONAPARTR'S tyranny, will be mon ill name than in substance ; for, in point of faa, Ha; land has Ceen for some years, to all intents and par` poses a province of France, and indeed, in setting forth the grounds of the annexation, BUO,NAPAKTS has stated Some plausible reasons to c(mvince tlta People of Holland ' that they will be gaihers, by tl l6 .challge. lie tells - them in substance, if not in. terms, that he has reduced them, by. tne various ads of oppression, to such a staie of extreme wretch' edness, that he conceives he is really doing the' An act, of kindness to put them upon a, foOting with the People of France; and to complete the measur e of inStitt; 'he (elk them, that the very last Treaty' by which he consented to - take a part of their terry tories, as boon fur letting them retain-a nominal in' dependence, is the strongest reason in the wotia why that nominal independence should no tenser exist. In a word, there is such a mixttire'of lug irony, and of unfeeling batbarity in this.doco mem, that it would almost seem as if he wished to goad the unfortunate People of Holland into an ury availing resistance, in older to justify a little execution upon. them. By the same Decree annexes Holland to Franee, BUONAPARTE at one stroke of his pen, two-thirds of the pub lic debt ; or, in other words, he has robbed the publ ic , creditors of , between sixty and seventy millions 0 florins. It is.singular that the abdication of Loins is stat ed to have been made without the consent or know ledge of BUONAPALITE ; and this statement 19, i 3 some degree, confirmed by the private letters, state, that Lours has secretly departed from 14°1- land. These letters positively assert, that L O O was at Amsterdam on the Ist inst. and transatlea business as usual, and afterwards went to the palj ea . at Haarlem,- to dinner, with a number of friends' Between eleven and twelve, the party left the I palace, and ~immediately af terwar d s Cows, a c.* companied by an officer of the lump of TaAvfis i ' and one servant, got into a carriage, which had been prepared for him, and has not since been heard of IC is SOPposedby some that he has fled to Tonniogerl' and that he,has secured, the means of his escape 1(1 America. What is to become of Louis's wife, wil t° he had appointed Regent; and of his, or rather her children, whom he_ had appointed his succeso rh we are not-told; - the former has within these 134 feud `rnOnths experienced an uncommob vicissitude of fortune. A short time ago her mother 1 . - va i*ii • Empress, and her husband a King; now•her mother' is divorced, deprived of her rank, and banishe d ' avid her hu,band . has abdicat e d hi s t h rone arid ti ed from doininions. , —As for the children, Boo . • PARria will probably, for " divers good causes al" considerations," permit them still to be rffrol among theliiiPeiial Family of France. The other intelligence in theke Papers relates P" cipally to the progress of th e war in . Spani. o t 6 siege of Ciudad Rodetigo is pushed on with gr .° vigouri . but 'it iS adniated that the garrison dd'" l) themselves with . great bravery and perseverand. . • Portuguese Papers to the ii th inst. have been tei ' cei%ed. They contain news frOm Ciudad lioder'g ° to the 2d inst. The French bad conceuiratctialt° s all their forces, f . or the purpo,e 'of Catiying that 4)1 ; portant place. All their attacks, howeve, LIP the 2d, 'had 'failed, and it was suprosr d t hat the y .had sustained a loss. of not less than 6000 men. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Duke; YORK, Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, WA'. usual morning's ride in Windsor Grcat* Park , !cl twelve o'clock. The Roy a l Pa t ty was accompli. by Earl HAacou Co MUN Lady C , e li LYER, Generals Cam.cor and GARTH, and' Colo y TA,Y.t.ba and DEsiittow. . The QUEEN and Princess ELIZABETH N)'' airing to Froolore Lodge aod Gardens Y morning. ti ti aR bt co; '0 Pu